Tuesday, December 7, 2010

We Resist

We have to persuade Congress to make us free again. No one has the natural right to control another person's life. Throughout history, the high and the mighty have tinkered with the lives of the powerless, and consoled themselves they were agents of good.

President Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States (1923–1929), has been ridiculed for limited intelligence. In reality he was but a man of few words. Unfortunately, one of his most memorable quotations no longer applies today:

“The chief business of the American people is business.”

Today anyone attempting to start or conduct a business in the United States faces discouraging obstacles in high and uncertain taxes, government edicts and a maze of state and federal regulations.

We are no longer left to mind our own business. We must deal with a tangle of conflicting regulations and blockages to getting on with our private lives. Why? So Democrats, lawyers (The American Bar Association is a major contributor to the "Democratic" Party) and bureaucrats can have jobs where they can feel important. Those jobs consist mostly of trifling with the lives of We the People.

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The always fresh Constitution

You hear politicians saying we need to change with the times. They say the US Constitution was for a time when America was a new nation. They say the Constitution must be read as a "living document," so that parts may be discarded because they get in the way of government control.

Why? Who requires that our nation no longer act like it is young? Our national need for fresh perspective should not change, so our Constitution is ideal as it is and has been for centuries. It always leads us down the fresh path.

Liberty

Freedom is matter of individual rights. Individuals are society's elements, therefore individuals naturally bear the burden of society.That means individuals have the right to use their lives, liberties, and properties as they see fit, as long as they do not infringe on the rights of others.

In the context of the modern state, this philosophy engenders a set of normative policy prescriptions that reflect a belief in the efficiency and morality of unhampered markets, the system of private property, and individual rights -- and a deep distrust of taxation, forced egalitarianism (which is always applied by elitists), compulsory welfare, and the power of the state, which is always the power of the "ruling class."